I've just looked up the Icarus shawl, and boy that looks pretty! I did quite like the look of the Tongues of Fire shawl too. Decisions, decisions!
I was expecting to have a few issues with this project because I've never knitted anything as big as a shawl before, never followed a charted pattern before, never done lacework before etc. But as long as I'm still learning, it's OK to go wrong. (I've not even *looked* at cables yet...)
I'm not sure if I can explain the stitch formation thing, but I'll have a go.
If you look at my left-hand needle at the start of a row, it'd look like this: //////////////
What I was doing was pushing the right hand needle through the bit of the stitch closest to my body, so from left to right: /////////// ->/
So I was having to work against the natural direction of the stitch. Watching a more experienced knitter at Eastercon, I saw that she was working with the direction of the stitch, by pushing the RH needle from right to left through the part of the stitch furthest away from her body: /////////// /<-
Does that make any sense? Does that have actual proper names?!
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Date: 2010-04-13 08:09 pm (UTC)I was expecting to have a few issues with this project because I've never knitted anything as big as a shawl before, never followed a charted pattern before, never done lacework before etc. But as long as I'm still learning, it's OK to go wrong. (I've not even *looked* at cables yet...)
I'm not sure if I can explain the stitch formation thing, but I'll have a go.
If you look at my left-hand needle at the start of a row, it'd look like this:
//////////////
What I was doing was pushing the right hand needle through the bit of the stitch closest to my body, so from left to right:
/////////// ->/
So I was having to work against the natural direction of the stitch. Watching a more experienced knitter at Eastercon, I saw that she was working with the direction of the stitch, by pushing the RH needle from right to left through the part of the stitch furthest away from her body:
/////////// /<-
Does that make any sense? Does that have actual proper names?!